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There’s also 30% off ghoulish books for children: Meg and Mog, Julia Donaldson’s Room on the Broom, Funnybones: Bumps in the Night, Spookyrumpus or the Spooky Sticker Book.

Both models feature support for ePub and PDF and let you carry as many as 350 books, from our selection of over 12,000 eBooks, in their 512MB memory. The eInk paper-like display allows for easy and natural reading even in direct sunlight, and has faster page turns than earlier models. You’ll be able to read for up to two weeks on a single charge and charging the device is as simple as plugging the device with the supplied USB cable into your PC or Mac.

Sony Reader Touch Edition - Black

Sony Reader – Touch edition £249.99

Available in black or silver.
The Touch edition is a new standard of eBook reader and offers more than just book reading. Using the supplied stylus and touch screen you can highlight and annotate text as you desire and then export using the supplied Mac or PC software for later use. In addition to the new touch features, there are now 512MB of memory on board, meaning you can load as many as 350 books into one convenient device. You’ll never have to reach for your dictionary again with the inbuilt dictionary support – offering fast and easy look-up of words as you read.

Sony Reader – Pocket edition £179.99

Available in silver or pink.
The Pocket edition is designed to be as portable as possible and despite using a smaller 5-inch eInk screen has the same resolution as all previous Sony Reader models making for a remarkably sharp reading experience. The lightest reader released to date, at 220 grams, it is still an improvement on previous models – with faster page-turns, support for Mac as well as PC, and an enlarged memory capable of holding up to 350 books.

The Reader from Sony and any Reader ‘bundles’ are only available for purchase by UK and Ireland customers of Waterstones and can only be sent to your credit card billing address via courier delivery. This is to ensure that your order is fully trackable and to help Waterstones prevent fraud. The ‘COURIER’ shipping option will be applied when ordering the Reader from Sony, and any Reader ‘bundles’. These despatches will take around 7-10 days.

Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father’s account of the event. Now fourteen, she yeams for her mother, and for forgiveness. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her father, she has only one friend: Rosaleen, a black servant whose sharp exterior hides a tender heart. South Carolina in the sixties is a place where segregation is still considered a cause worth fighting for. When racial tension explodes one summer afternoon, and Rosaleen is arrested and beaten, Lily is compelled to act. Fugitives from justice and from Lily’s harsh and unyielding father, they follow a trail left by the woman who died ten years before. Finding sanctuary in the home of three beekeeping sisters, Lily starts a journey as much about her understanding of the world, as about the mystery surrounding her mother.

The book read something like a fantasy of the best possible outcome of running away from home – a seamless journey to a welcoming home with beds, companionship and work. If this is a little too much for some to swallow, it is countered by the fascinating insight into beekeeping – which pervades the latter part of the book with healing philosophies and a variety of novel uses for the products of a bee hive. Those who are interested in wildlife and gardening will love the in-depth affinity this book has with the art of bee management and honey production.

The Secret Life of Bees is as naive and hopeful as its narrator, but manages to offset the stifling heat of Carolina and the sickly sweet aroma of honey with the brooding shadow of local white male authority figures who represent danger, punishment without justice and prejudice in its most extreme forms. Buy it for only £5.99 with free standard UK delivery at Waterstones: